Lest We Forget – The Teesta Disaster, 4 October 2023

The October 2023 Teesta Floods and the acronym GLOF are not going to be easily erased from our memories, especially when it rains in the first week of October. Neither is the scarring of the landscape and the river flowing alongside houses, roads and highways going to heal overnight, considering very little was done for the rehabilitation of the landscape. What has faded is the much needed national and mainstream media focus on the issue and dialogue for rehabilitation and resilience building. As a region we have to ask the question, are we left to live with the impacts of the Teesta Disaster 2023 or are we going to learn from it and build back better?

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Dazzling Darjeeling


Bhikkhu Bodhipala – December 20, 1968 to July 27, 2020

Bhikkhu Bodhipala having grown up in Shillong, he well understood the importance of mainstreamitizing the North-East as well as forging a pan-Buddhist network between the various communities of practicing Buddhists scattered throughout different parts of North East India. From Arunachal Pradesh to Sikkim and Darjeeling to Assam to Kolkata and Chittagong, he worked tirelessly towards this end.